Using RUM to Fight Latency and Supercharge Performance

Enterprises invest heavily in distributed network and server infrastructure to deliver a great user experience, but dynamically changing conditions such as periods of network congestion or overloaded servers can degrade that experience. Often, the problem is not a lack of network or server resources. It is the lack of intelligence in the network to consistently use those resources effectively.

RUM, or real user monitoring, one of the new buzzwords in the world of internet infrastructure, aims to address this very issue. RUM promises to improve end-user quality of experiences, but is it really a game changer or little more than marketing hot air?

Join our live webinar where we'll focus on:

- A basic understanding of what RUM is and how it works
- How to know if RUM can help your application
- Optimizing RUM data for your needs
- RUM implementation and best practices

In the next 5 years, application traffic will grow an average of 35% each year. This growth in traffic coupled with a growth in the number of applications has changed the way applications are built and deployed. To provide the experience end-users demand, applications now run in multiple places.

Containerization and other flexible deployment models make application configuration faster and simpler but application delivery becomes more complex. Efficiently directing traffic is now harder.

These complex, hybrid and distributed systems require new solutions. Rafay Systems leverages NS1 to enhance end-user application experience and get application users where they need to be. How do they do it?

DNS georouting is a commonly used technique for connecting users to the closest web site or application point of presence. Most DNS services offer georouting but not all are created equal. What they do and how they do it matters for performance and manageability. In addition, georouting alone may not deliver the performance targets your business needs.

In this webinar you will learn:
- How georouting works on different DNS providers and what you should look for.
- Geo-targeting vs Geo-fencing.
- Why georouting often does not provide the best response and how to know if that is impacting your business.
- How you can improve application performance by combining georouting with active traffic steering on the NS1 platform.

The availability, performance and security of your DNS infrastructure is essential to offering a good digital experience to your users—yet DNS is an often overlooked aspect of architecting digital offerings.

Even with the tightest defenses of your systems and infrastructure, you may still be vulnerable to disruption if you're not paying attention to the security and maintenance of your DNS.

Join ThousandEyes and NS1 to get insight into architecting your DNS for security and resilience, as well as monitoring your DNS infrastructure to get alerted to issues that could disrupt or compromise your service delivery.

In this webinar, we discuss:
- Registrar security
- DNSSEC with traffic management
- DNS resilience and using a managed provider for failover
- Monitoring your nameservers and BGP routing to alert to man-in-the-middle attacks and DNS hijackings

Cloud architectures, microservices, and infrastructure scale have exposed unmet needs in DNS that now hamper modernization efforts, including the need for flexible traffic management, service discovery, rapid propagation, and comprehensive API support.

In this webinar, we discuss Private DNS, NS1's next-gen software only DNS that helps solve the performance, traffic management and automation challenges of modern enterprises.

Private DNS is designed primarily for deployment within enterprise intranets to meet the needs of user-to-user, user to device/application and application to application communication. It's massively scalable, automated, fast and smart.

Cloud architectures, microservices, and infrastructure scale have exposed unmet needs in DNS that now hamper modernization efforts, including the need for flexible traffic management, service discovery, rapid propagation, and comprehensive API support.

In this webinar, we discuss Private DNS, NS1's next-gen software only DNS that helps solve the performance, traffic management and automation challenges of modern enterprises.

Private DNS is designed primarily for deployment within enterprise intranets to meet the needs of user-to-user, user to device/application and application to application communication. It's massively scalable, automated, fast and smart.

Your online services are business-critical, and so is your DNS. Industry analysts agree that having a redundant DNS is a best practice for business continuity; and businesses that have experienced a DNS outage have learned that as well.

That said, 68% percent of enterprises are not using redundant DNS.

In this webinar we’ll discuss:

-The risks associated with single provider DNS
-The different ways you can set up dual provider, redundant DNS
-How NS1 Dedicated DNS makes it easier than ever to have a redundant DNS setup

Webinar attendees will come away with a solid understanding of the benefits of a redundant DNS as a means of securing business.

At NS1, we see DevOps as helping improve scalability and the application delivery process as a whole. Despite its benefits, moving to DevOps can be a challenging undertaking, especially for organizations riddled with legacy applications and technology. Many companies fail to reap the benefits because making the shift requires substantial changes to culture, processes and the resulting toolset.

As we move into 2019, the emergence of DevOps continues to be a part of a growing number of global enterprises. With the rise of this methodology, what new DevOps trends have yet to appear?

In this panel we will cover:

- What DevOps looks like at NS1
- What has the evolution of DevOps looked like?
- What are some of the remaining challenges left for DevOps to solve?
- What we still see as lacking from the DevOps tool belt?
- What is the future of DevOps?

Advancements in DNS (Domain Name Systems), including the ability to communicate via APIs and the power to couple real-time telemetry with automation capabilities, give this often overlooked but foundational component of the application delivery stack a critical role in a DevOps-driven world.

Leading-edge enterprises have stopped viewing DNS as just a "phone book" and are now leveraging next-generation DNS to better manage their infrastructure, improve application performance and lower costs.

In this webinar we'll focus on 3 case study examples of next-generation DNS in action:

- How a gaming company integrated and automated multiple CDNs to cut content delivery costs in half
- How an ad delivery platform delivers impressions 70% faster using a multi-cloud strategy managed by DNS
- How a security SaaS organization used DNS to improve performance and reduce help desk calls

In the incredibly complex world of gaming development, network engineers and application developers come up against a unique set of challenges. Aside from simply having a compelling product, performance and uptime are two of the most mission-critical aspects to keeping users happy. When either one is lacking, gaming companies see an immediate, negative impact on reputation and revenue.

Solving these challenges with low hanging fruit, like DNS, are often discounted or overlooked. However, DNS technology has made vast strides in the past few years and has the potential to make a significant impact on network reliability, performance, and ultimately - end-user experience.

In this webinar, we'll explore three ways gaming companies can leverage the 30-year old protocol to their advantage and look at specific use cases that may apply to some of the challenges you are facing today.

Leveraging Elasticsearch as a Time Series Database - Lessons from a DevOps Engineer

The DevOps team at NS1 realized that we were spending more time managing our telemetry system, rather than the services being monitored. A reevaluation of the alternatives led us to replace our time series database with Elasticsearch. The criteria to replace our time series database included:

- A single system for metrics and unstructured telemetry
- Granular control over what data is stored and retained
- Easy scalability
- Large diverse community
- Sufficient analysis capabilities

Watch this discussion to hear about our evaluation process and the lessons learned, and learn how NS1 simplified operations and reduced operational costs by combining logs and metrics in the Elastic Stack.

NS1's Pulsar is the only RUM solution that is natively integrated with authoritative DNS and designed to easily boost application performance and reliability without any complex third-party add-ons.

Managing CDN performance and cost is a challenge. You want the best performance for your applications but you don't have an unlimited budget. Join us to learn how our new Pulsar stabilization, priority and cost feed features now make it a lot easier to control costs and deliver a great application experience. Here is what we'll cover:

- How leading-edge NS1 customers are gaining as much as 70% performance improvements with Pulsar
- How to balance performance with contract commits and not leave money on the table
- How to use DNS traffic steering to improve cache hit ratios
- Hands-on demonstration of setting up DNS traffic steering using Pulsar

Common issues like network congestion or overloaded servers can negatively affect application performance, availability and business reputation. Using real user monitoring (RUM) is a powerful way for businesses to deliver a great user experience in the face of these dynamically changing internet conditions.

Join our live webinar as we discuss RUM and introduce NS1's Pulsar - the only RUM solution that is natively integrated with DNS and designed to easily boost application performance and reliability without any complex third-party add-ons.

We'll cover:

- A basic understanding of what RUM is and how it works
- How to know if RUM can help your application and what data you should use
- A demo of Pulsar for a variety of use cases

Internal DNS has become a performance and operational bottleneck for modern enterprises. Legacy systems typically come in 2 flavors - either a “build your own” solution using complex, open-source platforms, or expensive, proprietary appliances. Each option presents its own significant challenges and ignores needs like traffic management and application optimization.

Join 451 Research and NS1 as we explain why DNS is a huge opportunity for enterprises looking to improve their automation, scale, and application performance initiatives. This webinar will present an in-depth overview of the changing digital landscape, how it’s affected by internal DNS, and practical alternatives for you to look at, today.

You know your infrastructure best, and chances are you’re already carefully monitoring the health and usage of your systems.

Join us to learn how to use NS1's next-generation DNS to connect with external data sources, monitoring providers and even your own tools to ingest existing application health and infrastructure telemetry, leveraging your data in real-time to drive traffic management.

In this webinar we'll cover:

- Why DNS is perfect for making traffic management decisions
- How NS1 makes it easy to leverage metrics for traffic steering
- How using Pulsar, NS1’s RUM-based decision-making engine, can take your application’s performance to the next level.
- Best practices and example configurations

Cloud architectures, microservices, and infrastructure scale have exposed unmet needs in DNS that now hamper modernization efforts, including the need for flexible traffic management, service discovery, rapid propagation, and comprehensive API support.

In this webinar, we introduce Private DNS, NS1's next-generation DNS software product providing authoritative and recursive DNS services. Private DNS is designed primarily for deployment within enterprise intranets to meet the needs of user to user, user to device/application and application to application communication.

We'll cover:

- Current challenges managing DNS systems
- How NS1 is different
- Use cases
- Deployment and best practices

Regardless of how well your applications are designed, real time factors such as network conditions, user demand, local outages, and capacity affect the quality of experience for each individual user.

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is the intelligent distribution of traffic across server resources located in multiple geographies. With GSLB, traffic management decisions that leverage the current state of the application delivery network result in better application performance.

Join us to see how the NS1 platform allows you to easily implement a GSLB strategy using the ubiquitous protocol, DNS.

Internal DNS, has been a huge pain for network engineers for decades. Until now, the two choices for providing internal DNS have been to either “build your own” using complex, open-source platforms, or to buy expensive, proprietary appliances. Each option presents its own significant challenges and still faces limitations in reporting, auditing, and trouble shooting.

Join us to learn about modern challenges facing enterprise IT and how NS1's take on internal DNS can help.

With unique issues of congestion, underdeveloped networks, and stringent censorship, the Chinese Internet is an entirely different beast. We'll discuss the most common issues network teams should look out for, as well as best practices for monitoring DNS, benchmarking network performance in China, and ensuring that content passes through censorship filters smoothly.

NS1 provides an intelligent DNS and traffic management platform leveraging a data-driven architecture and a filter chain routing engine to enable large internet and enterprise brands to challenge network outages and malicious attacks and to optimize application delivery and keep their websites up and running. Customers include LinkedIn, The Guardian, Dropbox, Weight Watchers, Salesforce, and others.